Home Sweet Home

      NaBloPoMo asks:

  If I could live anywhere, where would it be? 

      Although there are lots of places I would love to visit, there is no sure guarantee I would really want to live there.  When I was a teenager, all I wanted to do was move to Nashville, Tennessee and start my life.  I graduated from high school and the following August, I moved to Nashville and became a resident in one of the dorms at Belmont University.  Once I got there, I realized a very important truth about myself.  While I loved visiting Nashville, if my folks weren’t there I really didn’t want to be there either.

 
 

       They say home is where your heart is, and all those years ago I realized that was the case with me.  As long as I have my husband, kids, and pets I could live anywhere.  Without my little family, it wouldn’t matter how beautiful the scenery, it just would never be home.

 

       I could say I would love to live in a sprawling castle in Scotland or in the picturesque countryside that surrounds London, but would I be happy?  I could say that I would give anything to live by the ocean, but after seeing the destruction of the recent hurricane, would I really want to live with that possible threat hanging in the air ?  I may discover that while it was a nice place to visit, I wouldn’t really want to live there.  Since I have a snowball’s chance in hell of living anywhere else besides where I am right now, I will be content right where I am at. 

      After all there is no place like home until next time when I give you another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.